Dasyleptus

Dasyleptus
Temporal range:
Dasyleptus sp. fossil
Life reconstruction of D. brongniarti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Archaeognatha
Suborder: Monura
Sharov, 1957
Family: Dasyleptidae
Sharov, 1957
Genus: Dasyleptus
Brongniart, 1885
Species

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Synonyms

Lepidodasypus Durden, 1978

Dasyleptus is an extinct genus of wingless insects in the order Archaeognatha, and the only member of the family Dasyleptidae. They resembled juveniles of their modern relatives and had a single lengthy filament projecting from the end of the abdomen. They also had a pair of leg-like cerci and some non-ambulatory abdominal appendages. The largest specimens reached 30 millimetres (1.2 in) or more, not counting the length of the filament. Dasyleptus species are mostly known only from the Late Carboniferous and Permian, but one species recorded from the Middle Triassic indicates that they survived the Permian–Triassic extinction event. Dasyleptus was formerly placed in its own extinct order, Monura, but is this is now treated as a suborder of Archaeognatha.